Tree's Place

great article! wonderful insights! thank you!

2009-02-17T13:39:00.000-08:00

great article! wonderful insights! thank you!

This does not address at all your commentary, but ...

2009-02-15T13:49:00.000-08:00

This does not address at all your commentary, but indeed does address
your fine gallery. Some years ago, as guest of a homeowner there in your fair town, we visited your shop and I was totally in awe of the quality of content there.
It was amazing to find such a great diversity of subject matter for sale.
We spent a lengthy time there and examined all the art and other objects for sale. For years, I yearned to return.
Now I have come upon your marvelous web site and find I can see much
of the art you now offer. As a consumer, it feeds my soul, and as an Interior Designer, it offers me a great selection to offer to my clients.
While in the area, I was taken by my hosts to meet the renown artist, Curtis Rosser. He was kind enough to invite us into his studio, along with a private tour. While there, I purchased many of his watercolors.
At that time, I believe you represented his works. As he is now deceased, I am wondering if you still do?
Blue Harris

Agreed. And we could call that part of the museum ...

2009-02-14T19:08:00.000-08:00

Agreed. And we could call that part of the museum "the alley out back where problems are solved twice a week". Abstraction, after all is merely one of a host of techniques that a modern artist must understand, possess and move beyond. And I emphasize the term "modern artist" since that term as much as any other needs to be brought back into the warm light of realism from which it slipped away briefly.

You are right to want modern realism to hang with ...

2009-02-14T09:20:00.000-08:00

You are right to want modern realism to hang with the realism of the past in the museums rather than it being hung according to chronology. Chronologically categorizing realism intersperses it with abstract painting. When abstract painting came out it's primary goal was to completely break with the realists. In fact, when abstraction came out, there was an antagonistic attitude towards the realists. They had to denigrate realism in order to justify abstraction. This was a mistake because other than the most rudimentary aspects, the two forms of art have nothing in common. Why should they now be lumped together in the same department. I think modern realism should be connected with the realism of the past so it can be viewed in its proper context. It is part of a chain knowledge and the philosophy of art that goes back to the Lascaux caves and beyond. Abstraction forks off this but is not really part of the chain. I think the abstract art should hang in a separate part of the museum...but then nobody would go there. (tweak)